Package-tie.



E. W. MILHADO. PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 1908.

93 1,631 Patented Aug. 17', 1909.

rTlI l a% avwenl oz witnesses EDWARD W. MILHADO, OF MINERAL, VIRGINIA.

PACKAGE-TIE Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed February 1, 1908- Serial No. 413,771.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, EDWARD IV. MlnnAno,

a citizen of; the United States, residing at Mineral, in the county ofLouisa and State of Virginia, .have invented certain new and usefulImprovements -in Package-Ties, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in package ties and the object isto provide a simple, .nezpensive and .readily-applic. tie for packagesof letters or other articles.

With the above object in view the invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described, particularlypointed out in the claims and clearly illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of a package of letterssecured by means of my improved tie; Fig. 2, a plan View of one form ofmy improved tie; Fi modified form, an Fig.4, a similar View of anothermodification.

My improved tieconsists of a tongue or inserting portion 1 formed ofrelatively stiff paper or other material and of any desired size.Attached at one end to this tongue or inserting portion 1 is a strip 2of pliable paper or other material of sufiicient tensile strength forthepurpose for which it is designed, namely, of extending about the packageand securel holding the letters or other articles com rlsed therein.These tiestrips 2 may be 0 difierentlen hs according to the use to whichthe tie 1s,to be put,

and at their free ends may be gummed as 1ndicated at 3 on one or bothsides.

3, a similar view of a tongu In operation, the tongue 1 is inserted atsome point in the package as shown in Fig.

1, and the tie-strip 2 passed around the'package and drawn tight, thegumon its free end being moistened and said overlapping free end united tothe adjacent portion of the strip. By gumming both sides of the free endof the tie-strip, the latter may be passed around the package in eitherdirection.

The tongue 1 may be formed wider than the tie-strip as shown-in Fig. 2or of the same width as shown in Fig. 3, and the two parts of the tiemay be united by gumming or otherwise. The tie may also be formed andsold in two separate parts as shown in Fig. I

4:, that is, a tongue or inserting portion and a tie-strip, in whichcase the tie-strip or the tongue would be gummed for ready attachment.In this event, a tie-strip could be selected of the proper length forthe particular package to be secured, and readily united to a tongue orinserting-portion by moistening the gummed portion.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by-Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A package tie comprisin a tongue or inserting-portion of relative ystill material, and a tie-strip attached at one end to the In testimonywhereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses. v I

EDWARD W. MILI-IADO.

Witnesses: i

A. P. OARNOHAN, R. F. BURNHAM.

Patented Aug 17, 1909.

